false 1215358 13 In the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, in his fourteenth year as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan took part in a very quiet collective effort to ensure that America didn't experience an economic meltdown, taking the rest of the world with it. There was good reason to fear the worst: the stock market crash of October 1987, his first major crisis as Federal Reserve Chairman, coming just weeks after he assumed control, had come much closer than is even today generally known to freezing the financial system and triggering a genuine financial panic. But the most remarkable thing that happened to the economy after 9/11 was...nothing. What in an earlier day would have meant a crippling shock to the system was absorbed astonishingly quickly. After 9/11 Alan Greenspan knew, if he needed any further reinforcement, that we're living in a new world - the world of a global capitalist economy that is vastly more flexible, resilient, open, self-directing, and fast-changing than it was even 20 years ago. It's a world that presents us with enormous new possibilities but also enormous new challenges. The Age of Turbulence is Alan Greenspan's incomparable reckoning with the nature of this new world - how we got here, what we're living through, and what lies over the horizon, for good and for ill-channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy for longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure. He begins his account on that September 11th morning, but then leaps back to his childhood, and follows the arc of his remarkable life's journey through to his more than 18-year tenure as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, from 1987 to 2006, during a time of transforming change. Alan Greenspan shares the story of his life first simply with an eye toward doing justice to the extraordinary amount of history he has experienced and shaped. But his other goal is to draw readers along the same learning curve he followed, so they accrue a grasp of his own understanding of the underlying dynamics that drive world events. In the second half of the book, having brought us to the present and armed us with the conceptual tools to follow him forward, Dr. Greenspan embarks on a magnificent tour de horizon of the global economy. He reveals the universals of economic growth, delves into the specific facts on the ground in each of the major countries and regions of the world, and explains what the trend-lines of globalization are from here. The distillation of a life's worth of wisdom and insight into an elegant expression of a coherent worldview, The Age of Turbulence will stand as Alan Greenspan's personal and intellectual legacy. 1203801 17 9 2007 The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World total:1119|5:198|4:472|3:348|2:86|1:15| 1119 4109 2151 332 1 4 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 22 11:09:24 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 30 11:52:26 -0700 2007
The Age of Turbulence consists of three main parts in its 505 pages. The first half is an autobiography where we learn of his...more...]]> 5 3 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon May 19 08:03:26 -0700 2008 Mon Feb 09 20:39:59 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Oct 01 17:34:53 -0700 2008 Sat Jan 10 09:47:35 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false true Tue Apr 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 09 15:13:07 -0800 2008 Thu Oct 09 07:20:03 -0700 2008
Okay so in light of the financial meltdown currently going on- I'd like to bring attention to my comments on Greenspan's flawed view of "minimally regulated capitalism"... I was right!!! The deregulation (and, in retrospect, easy credit years) of the Greenspa...more...]]> 4 1 true false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jan 05 12:40:03 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 05 13:08:08 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Oct 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jan 01 20:49:11 -0800 2008 Fri Oct 24 17:40:25 -0700 2008
I was going to read it over last Xmas break, but my wife grabbed it and started reading it before I could. This sat on my nightstand for almost a year when my curiosity about the recent financial problem...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 21 19:03:59 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 21 19:42:01 -0800 2007 more...]]> 1 1 false true Tue Mar 11 22:58:33 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 22 20:49:39 -0800 2007 Tue Mar 11 22:58:04 -0700 2008
The second half of the book is a whirlwind "Around the world in 80 ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 01 10:44:20 -0700 2008 Mon May 05 18:27:09 -0700 2008
He divided this book up very nicely. The first part of the book covers his entire personal and professional history.

The next part of the book covers different geographical sections. As a former ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 07 14:56:44 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 14:56:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 10:11:31 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 10:34:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed May 20 06:46:05 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 06:47:14 -0700 2009 Alan Greenspan – The Age of Turbulence

Wow. This book was a slow read. I started in spring of 2008 in Tillamook, OR and ended up finishing it 8 months into my Taiwan experience. Hence, I don’t remember a whole lot about the content of this book. It opened my eyes the t...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Aug 13 14:15:28 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 30 23:33:22 -0700 2008
I think my favorite thing about this book is that he...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Dec 09 20:40:06 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 19:07:42 -0800 2008
This book takes a sober look at the events of the last several decades. Alan Greenspan, having served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987-2006, is able to provide insightful economic analysis.

Reading about the recent economic turmoil in the news has ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Dec 01 17:41:26 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 17:53:57 -0800 2008
I might be biased, since I have a decent income, have for years, and am still rent...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Apr 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 13:52:49 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 08:36:30 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 14 13:08:43 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 13:15:43 -0700 2009 1
One criticism that has been made is that he seems to be trying to represent himself in a historicall...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Dec 18 08:14:50 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 18 08:25:28 -0800 2007 5 0 false false Wed Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 22 10:18:06 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 10:26:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 12:23:42 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 12:28:37 -0800 2009 1 more...]]>